Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAt the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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