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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJoy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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