Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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