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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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