To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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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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