Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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