A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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