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Letter "M" » Matthew Arnold Quotes
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«...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.»
«Creep into thy narrow bed, / Creep, and let no more be said!»
«He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the Iliad itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.»
«Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.»
«The magnificent roaring of the young lions of the Daily Telegraph.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
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Daily Telegraph, lions, magnificent, roaring, telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Young Lions
«Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come: / And on the beach undid his corded bales.»
«The young light-hearted masters of the waves.»
«Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children; and therein it specially suits our middle-class.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
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middle class, necked, perverse, Philistine, stiff, suits
«Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.»
«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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