...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry and we have Shakespeare.
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Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
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