History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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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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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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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