To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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