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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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