Six years-six little years-six...

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

Culture, the acquainting ourse...

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.

All knowledge is interesting t...

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

The brave, impetuous heart yie...

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

With aching hands and bleeding...

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern.

This strange disease of modern...

This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Alas! is even love too weak

Alas! is even love too weak
To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
Are even lovers powerless to reveal
To one another what indeed they feel?
I knew the mass of men conceal'd
Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
They would by other men be met
With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;
I knew they lived and moved
Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet
The same heart beats in every human breast!

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Greatness is a spiritual condi...

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.

Is it so small a thing to have...

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?

Ah, love, let us be true To on...

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Wandering between two worlds, ...

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

But often, in the world's most...

But often, in the world's most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in usЂ'to know Whence our lives come and where they go.

Whoever sets himself to see th...

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.

Our inequality materializes ou...

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Culture, then, is a study of p...

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 is both an intellectua...

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Culture is to know the best th...

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world

Men of culture are the true ap...

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

The 'hairy quadruped furnishe...

The 'hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits,' this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.

Thought and science follow the...

Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls
...The prophetic soul,
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.