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 ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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