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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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