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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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