And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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