Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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