Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD