France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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