How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDColeridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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