Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd we forget because we must and not because we will.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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