The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIs 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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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