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!
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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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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