The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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 looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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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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