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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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