For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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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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