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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history...
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
Still standing for some false impossible...
The heart less bounding at emotion new,
The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring...
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which...
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the Iliad itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with...
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea...
Still nursing the unconquerable hope,
Still clutching the inviolable shade.
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...
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Source: Sohrab and Rustum.
-- Matthew...
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
Source: Resignation, 214
-- Matthew Arnold,...
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Source: In
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears.
He laid us as we lay at birth
On the cool flowery lap of...
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. . . .
He who works for sweetness and light...
[Poetry] a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic...
Culture is. . . properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of...
With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
Source: Merope.
-- Matthew Arnold,...
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of...
Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go?
Soon will the high midsummer pomps come...
Is it so small a thing
To have enjoyed the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have...