Quote #120

The same heart beats in every human breast.

More from Matthew Arnold

  1. The crown of literature is poetry.
  2. To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
  3. It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this: that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life; that the greatness of a poet lies in his po…
  4. There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, 'To make reason and the will of God prevail.'
  5. A beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley], beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
  6. The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
  7. Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
  8. Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?'

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