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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grand...  
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.  
But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and ...  
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.  
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study...  
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known a...  
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur,...  
Greatness is a spiritual condition.  
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and im...  
It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in...  
Journalism is literature in a hurry.  
Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor ...  
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Popula...  
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left ou...  
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his mise...  
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for so...  
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.  
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in ...  
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light...  
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but moralit...  
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an En...  
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided ...   Society
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.  
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle wo...  
With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near...