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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

Matthew Arnold

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Always Gem God Granted Heart Pure Soul True
For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Cast King Launch Peculiar Relation Satisfaction Soul Strength Style
Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Art Calm Happiness Knowledge Light Men Positive Shine Smile Topping
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Culture Dull Passion Perfection Saw Study Success Swag Work Hard
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Culture Ideas Perfection Study Success Swag Today Work Hard World
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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Apostles Culture Equality Frozen Grace Indifference Men Mets Mindset World
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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Feel Light Motivated Positive Shallow Strong Success Think Thinking Vibe
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Concur Knowledge Literature Man Masterwork Men Power Writing
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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Apostles Culture Equality Grace Men Mindset Spiritual Style
But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Duty Emotion Jesus Responsible Secret Spiritual Sweet
How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Energy Innovation Mind Positive Secrecy Solitude Soul Thinking
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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Believe Country Faith Healing Restore Soul Time
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Culture Dream Hate Light Machine Passion Vision
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Consequence Fake History
Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Compare Complaining Light Men Shallow Time Value

I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

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