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- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a…
- All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
- In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with…
- And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
- Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live…
- Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
- For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
- Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
- France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
- Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make,…
- All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
- The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,…
- No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,…
- It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the…
- Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears…
- All the live murmur of a summer's day.
- It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
- All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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