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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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