How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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