And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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