A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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