One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Sanity — 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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