Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYes! 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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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