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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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