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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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