Quote by Matthew Arnold
Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt,

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled. – Matthew Arnold

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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. – Matthew Arnold

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

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

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This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. – Orson Scott Card

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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. – Maya Angelou

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. – Laurens van der Post

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Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. – Felix Cohen

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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. – Henry A. Kissinger

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In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. Its such a gamble. – Robert Carlyle

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I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. – William Butler Yeats

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