Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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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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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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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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?
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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