Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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