All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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