To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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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 freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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