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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOnce read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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