Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the live murmur of a summer’s day.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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