The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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