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.
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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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