Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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