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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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