Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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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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