I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Is 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?
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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