If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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, 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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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