The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJoy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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