Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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