Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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