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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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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 properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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