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Letter "M" » Matthew Arnold Quotes
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«Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world»
«Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.»
«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.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
chafe, chafing, Great Salt, Great White, salt, seaward, spray, The Wild, tides, toss, toss in, white horse
«Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of light.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
chosen people, dogged, nickname, Nicknames, opponent, originally, Philistine, The Chosen, unenlightened
«Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it»
«The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
sweetness, sweetness and light
«Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.»
«Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.»
«Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill.»
«The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.»
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