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 ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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If 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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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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