Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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