All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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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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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
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Below 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.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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