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 ARNOLDAt the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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