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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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