I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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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 eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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