They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime 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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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 – 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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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