Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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