All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAt the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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