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

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives 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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

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But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

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Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

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