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 ARNOLDTis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The 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.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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