Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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