Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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