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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Age Content Oneself Youth
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Compare Complaining Light Men Shallow Time Value
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Always Gem God Granted Heart Pure Soul True
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Approve Health Knowing Knowledge Real Science Scientific True

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