This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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