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Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

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Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

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The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

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This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

George Ripley

George Ripley
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Born: October 3, 1802
Died: July 4, 1880 (aged 77)
Bio: George Ripley was an American social reformer, Unitarian minister, and journalist associated with Transcendentalism. He was the founder of the short-lived Utopian community Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
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  1. The Compound of Alchemy
  2. LATEST FORM OF INFIDELITY EXAM
  3. HAND-BK OF LITERATURE & THE FI

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