Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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