And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGenius is mainly an affair of energy.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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