Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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 power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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