Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTis 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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