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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJournalism is literature in a hurry.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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