Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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