Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOthers abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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