A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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