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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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