I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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?
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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