How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the live murmur of a summer’s day.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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