The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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