Thou standest, smiling
Down on me!
(The Strayed Reveller)
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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He bears the seed of ruin in himself.
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But, since life teems with ill,
Nurse no extravagant hope.
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One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
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