Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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