A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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