Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDUse your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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