If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
MATTHEW ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Nor 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.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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