Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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