And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJoy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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