Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJournalism is literature in a hurry.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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.
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