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 ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Style … 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.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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