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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIs 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?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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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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