Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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