Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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