Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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