The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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