The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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