The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd we forget because we must and not because we will.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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 being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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