"Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind……" — Matthew Arnold
"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 the light."
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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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