I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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If 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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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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