Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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