Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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