On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature’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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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