Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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