Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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