The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation when memory came, it was experience when mind Acted, it was knowledge when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity Himself from God he could not free He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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I like man, but not men.
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