Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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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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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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