And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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