Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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