Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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