I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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