The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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