Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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