Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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