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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Memory

4.1 · 25 votes · 180 reads

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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.

Culture

4.7 · 58 votes · 121 reads

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Culture

4.6 · 52 votes

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Greatness is a spiritual condition.

Greatness

3.4 · 53 votes

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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

University

110 reads

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Art and Culture
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
3.9 · 55 votes · 150 reads
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Society
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great
4.6 · 22 votes · 100 reads
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Feelings
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. - Arnold, Matthew
4.8 · 25 votes · 19 reads
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Feelings
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
4.7 · 9 votes · 92 reads
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Time
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
4.4 · 60 votes · 179 reads
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Society
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
3.0 · 56 votes · 105 reads
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Nature
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
3.1 · 62 votes · 129 reads
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Nature
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
3.2 · 11 votes · 180 reads
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Virtues
With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbour to Despair.
3.0 · 25 votes · 169 reads
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