The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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