Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.Matthew Arnold
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
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But is a calm like this, in truth,
The crowning end of life and youth,
And when this boon rewards the dead,
Are all debts paid, has all been said?
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