Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDColeridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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