However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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