Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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