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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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