Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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