Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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