Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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