Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said 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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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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