Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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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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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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