Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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