To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDConduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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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.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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