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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOne thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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 pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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