Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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 is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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And 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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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