Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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