History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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 looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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