Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIs it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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