History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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