How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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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.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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