Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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