The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOnce read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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