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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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
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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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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