Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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