Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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