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“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”
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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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“Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.”
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“Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”
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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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“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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“Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.”
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“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.”
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“Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.”
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“The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.”
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“Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from...”
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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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“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
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“The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
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“This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.”
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“The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”
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“Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world”
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“That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.”
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“Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.”
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“The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.”
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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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“The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.”
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“Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.”
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“Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.”
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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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“However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.”
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