For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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I 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.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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