Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh, love, let us be true To one another!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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