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.
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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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