Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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