Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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