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!
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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 both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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