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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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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 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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