Higher Quote by Matthew Arnold

“Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.”

Matthew Arnold

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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

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We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind…

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“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”

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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed…

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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human…

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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

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Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

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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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Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

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Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man…

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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

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No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

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I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within…

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Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

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The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

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I know there is a higher being and I respect that force.

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