Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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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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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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