Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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