Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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