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 ARNOLDWho hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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