How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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.
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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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