Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBelow the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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