France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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?
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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