Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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