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Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.

Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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