Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDBelow 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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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