For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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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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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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