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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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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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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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