Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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