Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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