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Matthew Arnold - From the Criticism category:
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. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Culture category:
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. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Culture category:
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and what is more, the passion for making them prevail. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Ego category:
Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Fire category:
We cannot kindle when we will / The fire which in the heart resides, / The spirit bloweth and is still, / In mystery our soul abides. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Perfection category:
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Poetry category:
Not deep the Poet sees, but wide. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Poetry category:
-On Translating Homer: Last Words
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Style category:
People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Thinking category:
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Thinking category:
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Words category:
Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. (Matthew Arnold)
Matthew Arnold - From the Writing category:
Journalism is literature in a hurry. (Matthew Arnold)
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