However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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