Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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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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