One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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