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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWhoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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