Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJoy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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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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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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