Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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