Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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