And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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