It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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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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