A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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