It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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 this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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