And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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