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 ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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