On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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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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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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