The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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 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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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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