Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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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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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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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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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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Joy 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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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