I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Below 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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Weep 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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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