Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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