Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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