Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOnce read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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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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