Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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 brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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