Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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