This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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 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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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It 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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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