For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFrance, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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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.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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