Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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