History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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