Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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