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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Sanity — 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.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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