They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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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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