Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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