Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJournalism is literature in a hurry.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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