Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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