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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture 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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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 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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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