Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Whoever 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.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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