Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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