All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying 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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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 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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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