And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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