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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

Matthew Arnold

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Apostles Culture Equality Grace Heroism Mediocrity Men Mindset
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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Adequate Circle Circles Creation Habit Ideas Small Success Will Power
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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Compare Complaining Light Men Shallow Time Value
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Forget Nature Willing
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
Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture Follow Mean Obey Perfection Respect Said Tradition World
Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Art Calm Happiness Knowledge Light Men Positive Shine Smile Topping
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Apostles Culture Equality Grace Men Mindset Pleasure Saint World
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Death Exact Genuine Men Motivation One Liner True Truth
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Beautiful Dreams Need Sweet
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Accept Art Chance Control Fate Lucky Sad Soul
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
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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Confidential Hidden Long Personal Self Trying Vain
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Culture Ideas Perfection Study Success Swag Today Work Hard World
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Age Content Oneself Youth
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Concur Knowledge Literature Man Masterwork Men Power Writing

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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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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