Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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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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