Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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