121 ordspråk av Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Not here, O Apollo! / Are haunts meet for thee. / But, where Helicon breaks down / In cliff to the sea.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent
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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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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace.
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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.
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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.
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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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Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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