Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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 the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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