Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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 brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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