They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The 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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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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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