Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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