France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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