France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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 pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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