Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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