Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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