Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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