Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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