Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLDArt still has truth. Take refuge there.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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And 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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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