Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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