Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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