And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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