The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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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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 pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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