Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, 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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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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