Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDColeridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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