Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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