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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWith 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 bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Conduct 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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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