Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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 of the human spirit.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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