The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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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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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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