For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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 looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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