Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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