For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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