And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold
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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
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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.
Matthew Arnold
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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.
Matthew Arnold
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold
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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.
Matthew Arnold
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
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Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Matthew Arnold
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Matthew Arnold
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Matthew Arnold
