The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAt 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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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 freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Time 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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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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