Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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