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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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