Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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 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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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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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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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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