Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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