Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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