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 ARNOLDHowever, 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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 grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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