Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness is a spiritual condition.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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