To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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 the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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