Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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.
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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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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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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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