Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh, love, let us be true To one another!
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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