Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd we forget because we must and not because we will.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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