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Culture is properly described ...

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Because thou must not dream, t...

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Conduct is three-fourths of ou...

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

I do not believe today everyth...

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Our society distributes itself...

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

At the present moment two thin...

At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Life is the application of nob...

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Not deep the poet sees, but wi...

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Philistine must have originall...

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Without poetry our science wil...

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Genius is mainly an affair of ...

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

We cannot kindle when we will ...

We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

He spoke, and loos'd our heart...

He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

In our English popular religio...

In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Religion is ethics heightened,...

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

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For this is the true strength ...

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Home of lost causes, and forsa...

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Thou waitest for the spark fro...

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

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When Byron's eyes were shut in...

When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

To hear the world applaud the ...

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

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