And we forget because we must and not because we will.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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