Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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