Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Culture, 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.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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