Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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