For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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