Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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