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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Being Doth Image Know Last Nature Only Soul Thing Wisdom
Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Entire Fence Incound Integral Intelligence One Reality Sound Voice
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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Bossy Earth Laways Lie Over Rot Wherever
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
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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All Anyone External God He Ignorant Present So Thing Though
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
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
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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All Back Divine Give Myself Strive
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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All Thing Another Fill Full Learn Man Sign Thing Wise
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
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Alone Flight God Godlike Life Love Men Without World
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
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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Depend Head Ignore Inward Look Many On One Outside Outward Until Wel When
There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Body Many One Same Soul There
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Appreciate Faulty Infinite Only Reason Superior Vcan You

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