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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
These Times strike Monied Worldlings
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
Intimations of Immortality
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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