One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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