The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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