And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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At 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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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