Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYears hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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 do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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