All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDColeridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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