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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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