Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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