France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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