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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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