I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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