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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

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Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Being Doth Image Know Last Nature Only Soul Thing Wisdom
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love
Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Establish Godlike Goodness Shall Shine Shrine Splendour Surely Until
If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Attain Conduct Goal Lie Outside Right Someone Something
We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Above Actual Association Body Constitute IT May One Set Since Soul Thing Treat Two Whether Within
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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Beautiful Creator Find Into Look Made State Withdraw Yet Yourself
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly
Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Alone Blend Body Both Clean Derive Distinct Either Empty Enjoy Entirely Mode Soul Third Two
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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Depend Head Ignore Inward Look Many On One Outside Outward Until Wel When
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Birthright Close Eyes Invokem Manner Must Our Put See Though Use Wakefulness
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Become Did Eyes First Itself never See Soul Sun Unless
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Around Bad Contemed Drag Enough Image Imprisoned Me Nature
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Good Harmonious Knowable World
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Alone Flight God Godlike Life Love Men Without World

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