Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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