Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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