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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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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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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 eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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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.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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