The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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