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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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