The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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