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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

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Become Before Exist Had Here Men Now Other Our Pure Soul We
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Absorb Contemplanation Hold Longer Object Question State View
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
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
As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Appear Eye Give Horizon Itself Our Own Rise Sight Sun Time Wait
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Aster Divine Enthroned Glory Holy never Seat Sel Shine Statue Stop Until Virtue Work
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
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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All Away Beauty Bring Cease Chiselling Crook Cut Excessive Form Glow Labour Light Make Overcast Straighten
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
As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Above All Beautiful Beauty Cadence Combination Conduct Higher Kind Life Melodies Mind Sense The Themselves Word
Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Degree Knowledge Opinion Science Three
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Banished Be Entirely Fear Must Nothing Purified Soul
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
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Dialectic First Instrument Intuition Mean Second Sense Third
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Good Harmonious Knowable World

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