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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Affection Aversion Courage Desire Distress Experience Fear Pleasure Seat These
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
We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Are Drom In IT Separte Spirit
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
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Antiquity Body Darkness Dogma Explate Internal Into New Pass Recognize Region Sin Soul Throughout Trait Undergo
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
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Daughter Father God Long Love Nature Noble One Soul
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
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
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
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Bossy Earth Laways Lie Over Rot Wherever
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Another Beauty Being Order Our Ourselves Over Own Possess True Ugliness W
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
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Banished Be Entirely Fear Must Nothing Purified Soul

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