Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … 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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Below 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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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 pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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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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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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