They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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