Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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