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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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