Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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