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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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