Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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