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Light half-believers of our casual creeds,
Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd,
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The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts, unutterably vain;
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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
The latest creed that has to be believed
And entered in our childish catechism
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A theory if you hold it hard enough
And long enough gets rated as a creed....
It was the words "descended into Hades"
That seemed too pagan to our liberal youth.
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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, fal ...
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