Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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