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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.

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

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
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Demand Fit Know Object Organ
If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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All Could God Himself If Man Once Se Turn Would
From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Body Experience Feel Himself Instrument Must Share Soul Took Work
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Another Beauty Being Ignorance Order Ourselves Over Own Posses Self True Ugly
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
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
Become vision itself.
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Become Itself Vison
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
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 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
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
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
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

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