The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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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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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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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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