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 ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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