The 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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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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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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