Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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