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
MATTHEW ARNOLDNor 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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