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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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