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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
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
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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
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
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
There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Body Many One Same Soul There
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
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
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Demand Fit Know Object Organ
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
Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Degree Knowledge Opinion Science Three
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
Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Become Dormant Dual Longer No Now Present Sense Thing
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

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