To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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 brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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