Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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