Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHowever, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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