I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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