The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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