Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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 is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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