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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

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Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

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There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

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If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

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To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get acoss a eal feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of natue. If you want to lean about natue, to appeciate natue, it is necessay to undestand the language that she speaks in

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Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt that, somehow, Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And, sure, the reverent eye must see A Purpose in Liquidity.

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