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We do not what we ought What we ought not, we do And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

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Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties

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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common discontent.

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

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This strange disease of modern life,With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

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He Chaucer lacks the high seriousness of the great classics, and therewith an important part of their virtue.

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Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou goSoon will the high midsummer pomps come on.

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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. . . .He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

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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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The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

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Force and right are the governors of this world force till right is ready.

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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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All the live murmur of a summer's day.

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Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said

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If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.

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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

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And sigh that one thing only has been lentTo youth and age in common - discontent.

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Is it so small a thingTo have enjoyed the sun,To have lived light in the spring,To have loved, to have thought, to have done

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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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No man, who knows nothing else, knows even his Bible.

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