And we forget because we must and not because we will.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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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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