Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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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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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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