Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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