Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
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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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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?
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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