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 ARNOLDIf one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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 difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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