To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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