The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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 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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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