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 ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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 eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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