Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYears 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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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