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 ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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At 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.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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