The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHome of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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, 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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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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I 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.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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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 to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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