Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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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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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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