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Matthew Arnold

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

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Amber Hurdle

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

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"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

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"Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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"Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure."

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"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."

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"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."
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"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."
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"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
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"Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair."
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"Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it."
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"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"
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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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"It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence."
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"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
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"It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."
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