And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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