Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIs 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?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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