Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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