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
MATTHEW ARNOLDNor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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