Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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