If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
MATTHEW ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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