Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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