For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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