Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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