Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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