Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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