Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI 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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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