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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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