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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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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 freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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