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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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