Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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