All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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