On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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