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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. – 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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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. – Matthew Arnold

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yamai wa ki kara
sickness is a thing of the spirit – Japanese Proverb

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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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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who does not know how to believe, should not know. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. – Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. – Herman Hesse

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