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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
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
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
Become vision itself.
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Become Itself Vison
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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Bossy Earth Laways Lie Over Rot Wherever
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Around Bad Contemed Drag Enough Image Imprisoned Me Nature
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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All Complex Creature Froma Must Make One Our Principle Single Universe
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
If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Attain Conduct Goal Lie Outside Right Someone Something
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Banished Be Entirely Fear Must Nothing Purified Soul
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
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
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

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