"Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair."
-Matthew Arnold
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"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.“
-Matthew Arnold
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"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
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"Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."
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"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."
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"The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."
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