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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Bossy Earth Laways Lie Over Rot Wherever
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
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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Beautiful Creator Find Into Look Made State Withdraw Yet Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
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
We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Are Drom In IT Separte Spirit
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
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
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
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Dialectic First Instrument Intuition Mean Second Sense Third
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
Become vision itself.
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Become Itself Vison

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