Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd 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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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 that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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