Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Quotes from Matthew Arnold:
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.Matthew Arnold
But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist and hum of that low land, Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, Under the solitary moon.
Matthew Arnold
Ah me,
Again the sweet sleep!
Matthew Arnold
And we are here as on a darkling plain; Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Matthew Arnold
Tears washed the trouble from her face!
Matthew Arnold
He knows, says Hebraism, his Biblewhenever we hear this said, we may, without any elaborate defense of culture, content ourselves with answering simply No man, who knows nothing else, knows even his Bible.
Matthew Arnold
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