This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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