France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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I 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.
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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 keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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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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