Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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