Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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