To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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