Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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