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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.

Matthew Arnold

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Famous Writer Mission Personal Rare Reveal Secret Writing
The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Decision Emotion Eternal Inner Voice Judge Plan Righteousness
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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Best Culture History Human Ourselves World
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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Echo Sea Shore Solitude Thrown Water Wild
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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Able Great Idea Important Question Think Thinking
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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Difference Education Genuine Learning Poetry Pope School Soul
Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Emotion English Expression Knowledge Love Philistinism
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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Eye Flashback Heart Memory Move On Past Sorrow Stirred Tear Weep World
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Forget Nature Willing
Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Blood Desire Feeling Heart Inner Voice Poet Solitude Toss Two
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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Beautiful Change Effect Flow Impress Impressive Men Noble Poet Poetry Result Saying Simplicity Widely
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Accept Becoming Culture Honor Life Mind Perfect Perfection Respect
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Deep Happiness Interest Knowledge Mature Men Wise
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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Feel Light Motivated Positive Shallow Strong Success Think Thinking Vibe
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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Achieve Belief Bleed Burden Feet Hand Learn Life Light
Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Culture Intellectual Journey Lesson Moral relief Struggle Taught

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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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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