If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOne thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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