All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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