On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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