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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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