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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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 freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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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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