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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Matthew Arnold

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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Discipline Follow Genuine Guidance Mean Nation Respect Rule Search Self
The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Brave Emotion Heart Love Protect Proud Soldier Yield
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Dissappear Miracle Progress Religious Science
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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Adequate Circle Circles Creation Habit Ideas Small Success Will Power
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Best Criticism Definition Endeavour Knowledge Learn Motivation World
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Class Human Being Inequality Middle Understand Wealth
Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Compare Complaining Light Men Shallow Time Value
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Age Emotion Feeling Fortunate Gay Harness Positive Respect Sage Years
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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Birth Breast Infant Kid Man Men River Time
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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Expansion Genuine Growth Instant Liberty Light Men Need Plan
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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Difference Education Genuine Learning Poetry Pope School Soul
Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Condition Force Governor Ready Right Rule Term World
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Freedom Future Generation Sense Thinking
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Culture Ideas Perfection Study Success Swag Today Work Hard World
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Forget Nature Willing

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

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