"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
-Thomas Hardy
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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.“
-Thomas Hardy
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"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."
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"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
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