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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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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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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