Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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