How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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