Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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