To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWith aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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