If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOthers abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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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 eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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