Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGenius is mainly an affair of energy.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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