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 ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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