Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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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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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 bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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