It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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