France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
MATTHEW ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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