It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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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 is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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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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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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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