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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

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

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Beauty Itself Light Over Play Rather Symmetry Thing
The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Away Beautiful Cut Here Lighter Line Make Other Pure Sculptor Shem Shown Smoothies Status Upon
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
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Defeat Earth Fall Here Life Sink Thing Wing
Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Become Dormant Dual Longer No Now Present Sense Thing
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Every Inscribe Letter Like Moemmet Sky Star Themselves
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
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Affection Aversion Courage Desire Distress Experience Fear Pleasure Seat These
But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Another Birth Come Courtship Fall Father Human Leave Love Lure Mortal Sphere Take
One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Attended Drom Effective Every Hear One Receive Side Utter Word
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Address Beauty Chiefly Hearing Itself Slight Too
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Bossy Earth Laways Lie Over Rot Wherever
We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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After Fit For IT Must Ourselves Run Transquilty Wait
Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Breathe Coordinate Depend Each Event Everything Full Other Sign Thing Together World
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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All From IT Nothing One Precisely Thing Within
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

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