Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

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• Matthew Arnold:

  Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

• Matthew Arnold:

  Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

• Matthew Arnold:

  To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

• Matthew Arnold:

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

• Matthew Arnold:

  Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture c

• Matthew Arnold:

  Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic t

• Eliza Cook:

  There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps m

• Eliza Cook:

  Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

• Eliza Cook:

  How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

• Eliza Cook:

  Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.