Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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