And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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