One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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