Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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 difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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