Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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