This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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