Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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 grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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