They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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It 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
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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