Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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