Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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