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More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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 have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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