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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh, love, let us be true To one another!
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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