Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Culture, 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.
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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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