Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDGenius is mainly an affair of energy.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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