QUOTES by Matthew Arnold
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"With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair."
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"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things"
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"And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!"
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"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace."
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"And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night"
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"But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will."
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"The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject"
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"But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon."
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"Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray."
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"If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success."
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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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"Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection."
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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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"This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims."
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"The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion."
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"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."
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"Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur."
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"Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore."
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"Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery."
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"Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it."
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"It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."
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"Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
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"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive."
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"Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away."
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"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"
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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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"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
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"Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."
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"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."
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"Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare."
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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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"(Poetry) a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty"
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"Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances."
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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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"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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"what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."
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