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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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