Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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