To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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 that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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 true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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