If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
MATTHEW ARNOLDArt still has truth. Take refuge there.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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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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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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