This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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