Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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