Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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