The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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