Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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