Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
MATTHEW ARNOLDUse your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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