And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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The 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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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