“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
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