To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd we forget because we must and not because we will.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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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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