To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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