Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Years 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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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