Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd we forget because we must and not because we will.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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