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
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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