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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.

Matthew Arnold

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Easy Family Life Precious Time Together Trust World
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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Bitter Broken Comfort Dead Fail heavy Hurt Lost Worthy
And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Believe Country Faith Healing Hustle Restore Sight Soul Time
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Beautiful Dreams Need Sweet
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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Able Great Idea Important Question Think Thinking
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Culture Dream Hate Light Machine Passion Vision
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Culture Dull Passion Perfection Saw Study Success Swag Work Hard
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Apostles Culture Equality Grace Men Mindset Pleasure Saint World
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Confidential Hidden Long Personal Self Trying Vain
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Echo Sea Shore Solitude Thrown Water Wild
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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Apostles Culture Equality Grace Men Mindset Spiritual Style
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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Change Christian Equality Eye God Love Men Religion
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Culture Follow Obey One Liner Respect Said Tradition World
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Art Calm Happiness Knowledge Positive Shine Smile Topping
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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Apostles Culture Equality Grace Heroism Mediocrity Men Mindset
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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Blood Desire Feeling Heart Inner Voice Poet Solitude Toss Two

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