Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. - Matthew Arnold

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You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur. . . bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

Matthew Arnold

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

False, Hope, Impossible, Make, Standing Alone

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Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

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The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

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Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

Appear, Incomplete, Philosophy, Science, Science And Religion

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

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