It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYears hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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