Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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