Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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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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