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Ah, love, let us be ture To one another! - [Love] Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. - [Conduct] Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. - [Culture] Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light. - [Culture] France famed in all great arts, in none supreme. - [France] Genius is mainly an affair of energy. - [Genius] How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! - [Mind] It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them. - [Culture] Journalism is literature in a hurry. - [Journalism] Know, man hath all which nature hath, but more, and in that more lie all his hopes of good. - [Goodness] Men of culture are the true apostles of equality. - [Culture] Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. - [Perfection] Now, the whole world hears Or shall hear,--surely shall hear, at the last, Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,-- That promise faithful:--"Fear not, little flock! It is your Father's will and joy, to give To you, the Kingdom"! - [Christianity] Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. - [Poetry] Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. - [Self-knowledge] The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. - [Poetry] The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. - [Evolution] To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. - [Creativity] Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. - [Truth] Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. - [Knowledge] Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave. - A Question (st. 1) [Change] And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. - A Southern Night (st. 18) [Soul] Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine, For of all powers the mightiest far art thou, Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven; Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled. - Balder Dead--The Funeral [Power] The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light." - Culture and Anarchy [Sweetness] The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. - Culture and Anarchy [Sweetness] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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