Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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 looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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