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 ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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