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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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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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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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