Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDYears hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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