On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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