It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh, love, let us be true To one another!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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