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Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold -
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.
Matthew Arnold -
This truth-to prove, and make thine own: ‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
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He went; his piping took a troubled sound Of storms that rage outside our happy ground; He could not wait their passing, he is dead!
Matthew Arnold -
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.
Matthew Arnold
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Such a price The Gods exact for song; To become what we sing.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.
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I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.
Matthew Arnold -
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.
Matthew Arnold -
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
Matthew Arnold
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Singing, 'Here came a mortal, But faithless was she: And alone dwell for ever The kings of the sea.'
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And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.
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The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm.
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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.
Matthew Arnold -
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold -
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
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Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer’d Fate.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
Matthew Arnold