Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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