Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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 eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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