Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOne thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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