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  1. The tiniest flower is a thought, - a life which corresponds to certain lineaments of the Great Whole, of which they have a constant intuiti…
  2. Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world. Thus man takes note of more than he is able to explain,…
  3. Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.
  4. Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
  5. Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
  6. The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
  7. If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment…
  8. Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all…

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