Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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