The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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