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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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