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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the live murmur of a summer’s day.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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If 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.
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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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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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