Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOne thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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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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