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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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