I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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