Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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