Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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 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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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