To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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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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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLD