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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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