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• So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and…
• Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with…
• Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice…
• Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
• Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
• A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in…
• The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
• The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for…
• Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
• Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
• To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of…
• All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

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