Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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