Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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