Quote by Matthew Arnold
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insi

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

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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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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

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Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. – Hermann Goering

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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Every mans ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. – John Abbott

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. – Allan Bloom

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