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 ARNOLDFrance, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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