The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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