Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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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 grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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