Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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