The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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