One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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