Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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