It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
MATTHEW ARNOLDI keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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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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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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