Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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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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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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