All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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