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?
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The 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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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