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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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