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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJournalism is literature in a hurry.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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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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