It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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