A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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