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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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
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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Action Dead Determine Does Knowledge Not Too Us
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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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
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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
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

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