Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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