Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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