Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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