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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBelow 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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