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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJournalism is literature in a hurry.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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