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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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Daughter Father God Long Love Nature Noble One Soul
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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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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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
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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Action Dead Determine Does Knowledge Not Too Us

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