Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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