Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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