The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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 is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Is 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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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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