Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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