Joy 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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.
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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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