Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNor 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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