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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Become Identical Object One Se Seen Such Vision
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
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
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
Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Degree Knowledge Opinion Science Three
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
In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Action Beauty Character Imnteelct Pursuit Virtue
One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Attended Drom Effective Every Hear One Receive Side Utter Word
If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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All Could God Himself If Man Once Se Turn Would
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Address Beauty Chiefly Hearing Itself Slight Too

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