Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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