They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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