Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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