Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJournalism is literature in a hurry.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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