Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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