And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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