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MATTHEW ARNOLDI keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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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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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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