For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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