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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDArt still has truth. Take refuge there.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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