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"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"
"He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God."
"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."
"As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there."
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
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