Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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