Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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