Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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 an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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