All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the live murmur of a summer’s day.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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