Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOthers abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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