Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The 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.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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