And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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