Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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