Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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