Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGenius is mainly an affair of energy.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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