The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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