A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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