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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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