How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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