The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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