All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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