To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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