This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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