Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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It 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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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