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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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