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 ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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