Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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