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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More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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?
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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