For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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