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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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