Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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