Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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