Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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