Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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