Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYears 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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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