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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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