Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, 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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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