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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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