Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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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.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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