Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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