Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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