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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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