Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDBelow the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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