The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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 need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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