This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture 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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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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