Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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