Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh, love, let us be true To one another!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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