Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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