The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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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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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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It 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
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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